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Analogous to the "God of the Gaps", is there an "AI of the Gaps"?

Asked by ragingloli (51983points) January 27th, 2023

The “God of the Gaps” is the habit of non-6-day-creationist religionists of invoking “God did it”, where ever there is a gap in scientific knowledge, and the size and number of gaps ever shrinking, this God, too, is relegated to smaller and smaller niches of existence. Where in the past it was lightning, the weather, disease, or the origin of life, it now is abiogenesis, or the cause for the big bang.

Similarly, despite all the advances in AI and their continuously expanding capabilities, detractors will never stop saying “AI will never be able to do X, with X shrinking with each new iteration.

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